It's time to announce the winners of the Performance Awards for Dreamhack Winter 2013 Quake Live Championship. As you may know, these awards were suggested during the DHW 2013 Donations. After the tournament, we stated a selection process (1, 2), and now we finally have the outcome.

The humble guys over at DreamHack recently uploaded the whole set of VODs to their official YouTube Channel. A total of 32 matches have been uploaded and are listed below following the tournament format. Enjoy the show and mind you, this post is not spoiler free.

A week has passed since the tournament. I started sending out the prize money from the donations to the players, and now it's time for the performance awards selection process. If you are wondering what this is, check the discussion.

Regardless of who you are (a player, a caster, a spectator, etc.) you can submit entries. Select the category for you entry, and post a link to a VOD/demo, the name of the players, and the time-stamp when it applies. You can see that the first 4 posts of this thread are reserved for this. I will move non-entries answers to keep these clean.

If you want to submit an entry but stay anonymous you can send me the entry in PM and I will post it for you.

The deadline for the submission is Wednesday December 18th. After the deadline we will do the selection, and send the awards to the player by Christmas.

First of all, a heartfelt thank you to all donors. A total of $5100 USD was donated, setting an incredible precedent and just showing how great our little community is. To compensate for Paypal taxes, I will add ~$200 USD to the pot, so the whole donated money can be distributed.

As you can imagine, a solution that pleases everyone is impossible. While far from perfect - allowing people to discuss and participate to a vote seems adequate to the situation. If you have doubts about how we arrived to this point, you can read the whole discussion here.

Money will be distributed with Paypal or Bank Transfer. The players are kindly asked to contact me with their information so I can transfer the money. Sorry I did not manage to go with cash directly, but it was not simple and I had limited time to act.

We are sorting out the details, but we want to package this into a show. The concept is the following:

After the tournament is over, there will be a limited time period for entries to be submitted. Anybody can submit. An entry consists of a demo or vod, a time stamp, and the award category. A Panel of 5 notable community members (to be determined soon - post proposals!), will do a first selection for nominees, and eventually the community will vote for the best.

Besides the awards, the intent of this is to involve everyone into digging out the best content out of this amazing tournament.